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We have lost our Noweigian...
[Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] has left the building and hopefully taken with her the insane heat wave we've had this week. ;)
2010-09-02
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It's a trap!
Just as a general head's up to folks, it appears that Nigerian hackers are targeting Facebook and Gmail. [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] got hacked tonight and a bunch of her friends received emails begging for money as "she and her family were robbed at gunpoint in London and needed to get home".
Obviously, none of us was really fooled and Bru was alerted and got her access back pretty quickly.
However, since it's happening and since I'm a tad paranoid about hacking and people getting into email/journals these days, just a head's up - I'm not going anywhere overseas, and should I be mugged, I won't be using Facebook to ask for help. Call phones have this wonderful feature called reverse charges and I have my parents' number memorised. D'uh.
So yeah, less internet-savvy of my readers, if you get anything like that from 'me', tell them to bugger off. And those who are savvy, you might want to tighten your personal security and double-check for any odd useage of your accounts.
Obviously, none of us was really fooled and Bru was alerted and got her access back pretty quickly.
However, since it's happening and since I'm a tad paranoid about hacking and people getting into email/journals these days, just a head's up - I'm not going anywhere overseas, and should I be mugged, I won't be using Facebook to ask for help. Call phones have this wonderful feature called reverse charges and I have my parents' number memorised. D'uh.
So yeah, less internet-savvy of my readers, if you get anything like that from 'me', tell them to bugger off. And those who are savvy, you might want to tighten your personal security and double-check for any odd useage of your accounts.